Great drive for Macs! Love it!
I’ve done a lot of research in purchasing an external drive for my iMac and this drive came as my #1 choice.
First of all I would like to address all the other reviewers saying they have problems with this product - please note that YOU MUST UPGRADE product’s firmware software [...]
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Nice drive but picture misleads
Having dealt only with seriously ghetto enclosures prior to this one, it was nice to get a drive of quality heft and construction. Install was a snap, and I got no complains on performance. Only quibble I have is that the drive I got is a more subdued blue, [...]
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V2.0 Of The My Book Series Is Out - Will It Be More Reliable Than V1.0?
[Update: 3/2009: It's been more than a year since I wrote this lengthy review and I wanted to return and let people know how these drives are performing.
I have a total of ten of these drives - four [...]
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Couldn’t be easier!
Paired with Apple’s Time Machine backup software (which is part of the current OS X.5 operating system), backup are a breeze! I bought this to use with my MacBook which lives in the living room most of the time but does move around. When I want to run a backup, I [...]
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Unique ID isn’t unique
This is an OK enclosure to invest in if you are positive that you will never need more than one, but if you ever plan to add another, beware. MacAlly ships every unit with the exact same internal GUID, in violation of the FireWire standard. The GUID is supposed to [...]
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Lies about working with Mac
I’ve just purchased this device to backup my Macbook because of a hard drive crash.
I specifically bought the device because it would work with a Mac and I’ve met all of their minimum requirements.
So I hook up the thing, and their software doesn’t find the drive as it’s supposed to. [...]
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Yes it works with power strips, Yes it can be shared on a network!!
I’ve been using this drive for about a month now. BUY IT! I don’t know if there are some defective drives out there or what but several of the negative claims sounded very odd to me. The first thing I did when [...]
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Maxtor OneTouch III 200GB External Hard Drive USB 2.0
Got a great deal from Staples, you can’t pass it up for $99 plus free shipping. I saw other sites mention that the software causes crashing, lack of a driver or something, so I did not install the backup software. Just plugged it into a USB port [...]
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What in the hell is wrong with Western Digital
If you are just looking to add an additional drive for storage, don’t buy this new version of My Book Essential. Especially if you plan to buy more than one (which you of course should unless it’s purely a backup drive). You will regret it unless you [...]
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Mac OS X 10.5 and your external drive…
I ordered this drive because of the capacity and the price figuring that when it arrived I would simply reformat it as HFS+ and plug it into my Macintosh Network. The problem was that every time I tried to use Disk Utility to reformat it I kept getting [...]
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